Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites

Möller, J.S.; Bonfà, P.; Ceresoli, D.; Bernardini, F.; Blundell, S.J.; Lancaster, T.; De Renzi, R.; Marzari, N.; Watanabe, I.; Sulaiman, S.; Mohamed-Ibrahim, M.I.

doi:10.1088/0031-8949/88/06/068510

Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites

Möller, J.S.; Bonfà, P.; Ceresoli, D.; Bernardini, F.; Blundell, S.J.; Lancaster, T.; De Renzi, R.; Marzari, N.; Watanabe, I.; Sulaiman, S.; Mohamed-Ibrahim, M.I.

Authors

J.S. Möller

P. Bonfà

D. Ceresoli

F. Bernardini

S.J. Blundell

Professor Tom Lancaster tom.lancaster@durham.ac.uk
Professor

R. De Renzi

N. Marzari

I. Watanabe

S. Sulaiman

M.I. Mohamed-Ibrahim

Abstract

The most fundamental limitations of a muon-spin relaxation experiment can be the lack of knowledge of the implantation site of the muon and the uncertainty about the muon’s perturbation of its host. Here we review some of the work done on the ‘muon site problem’ in the solid state and highlight some recent applications of electronic structure calculations that have successfully characterized the quantum states of muons in a number of insulating compounds containing fluorine, in a number of pnictide superconductors, and in ZnO.

Citation

Möller, J., Bonfà, P., Ceresoli, D., Bernardini, F., Blundell, S., Lancaster, T., …Mohamed-Ibrahim, M. (2013). Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites. Physica Scripta, 88(6), Article 068510. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/88/06/068510

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Dec 4, 2013
Deposit Date	Jan 16, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Feb 12, 2014
Journal	Physica Scripta
Print ISSN	0031-8949
Electronic ISSN	1402-4896
Publisher	IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	88
Issue	6
Article Number	068510
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/88/06/068510